Dr Marco Vianna Franco

Staff details

Dr Marco Vianna Franco

Position

Lecturer in Economics

Department

Institute of Management Studies

Email

m.viannafranco (@gold.ac.uk)

Marco is a historian and philosopher of economics interested in environmental sustainability.

Before joining the Institute of Management Studies, I have been a EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Cergy Paris University (Paris, France), fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Vienna, Austria), and researcher in applied sciences and public policies at the João Pinheiro Foundation (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). I hold a PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), as well as a Bachelor's and Master's in Engineering.

I am an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the study of human-nature relations from the perspectives of political economy and history and philosophy of science. My research focuses on the history and philosophy of ecological economics in different periods, countries, and scholarly traditions as a means to redeem ideas, theories, models, and practices which might inform how to conceptualise socially and ecologically sustainable economies and associated institutions today.

Teaching and supervision

  • Introductory Economics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics

Publications and research outputs

Article

Vianna Franco, Marco P.. 2025. Science and ethics in ecological economics: from radical roots to alternative economies. A Book Review of “Foundations of Social Ecological Economics: The fight for revolutionary change in economic thought” by Clive L. Spash (2024). Ecological Economics, 227, 108390. ISSN 0921-8009

Vianna Franco, Marco P.. 2024. Book review of Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis. Œconomia, 14(2), pp. 457-462. ISSN 2113-5207

Missemer, Antoine and Vianna Franco, Marco P.. 2024. Municipal Housekeeping and the Origins of the Economics of the Urban Environment (1900s–1920s). Review of Political Economy, 36(1), pp. 97-115. ISSN 0953-8259

Book

Vianna Franco, Marco P. and Missemer, Antoine. 2022. A History of Ecological Economic Thought. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367363925

Book Section

Philippy, David and Vianna Franco, Marco P.. 2024. Ecology and environment in home economics. In: Vitor Eduardo Schincariol, ed. Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought: Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 69-88. ISBN 9781032451091

Vianna Franco, Marco P.. 2023. Discounting. In: Brent M. Haddad and Barry D. Solomon, eds. Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 126-127. ISBN 9781788974905

Vianna Franco, Marco P.. 2023. Social provisioning. In: Brent M. Haddad and Barry D. Solomon, eds. Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 495-496. ISBN 9781788974905